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From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>,
	"FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: internal private IP address standards?
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:17:48 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jim Fleming
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 12:00 AM
> To: Andrew C. Hornback; Joe & Fhe Barbish; FBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: internal private IP address standards?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
> >
> > Most people that I know of use the address blocks set aside in RFC 1918.
> >
> > "3. Private Address Space
> >
> >    The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
> >    following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
> >
> >      10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)
> >      172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
> >      192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)" - RFC 1918
> >
> > Full text can be found at:
> > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html
>
> Everyone does not follow RFCs...
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp
> "If you have an IPv4 address that is part of the private address
> space (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, or 192.168.0.0/16) or the
> Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) address space of
> 169.254.0.0/16 used by Windows 98 and Windows 2000, it is not globally
> routable. Otherwise, it is probably a public IP address and is
> globally routable. See the Debugging 6to4 configuration in this
> document for more help in determining whether your ISP connection
> supports 6to4."

	Isn't this par for the course as far as Microsoft is concerned?  *shrug*
Don't answer that (that means you too, Anthony).

	Is APIPA an IETF thing or something similar?

--- Andy


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